The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-11

Ing you the medicine at just the right time,
and turning your pillow when it was hot, and
with hands that many years ago turned 10
I dust, sOotlI.d away your pain, and with voice
that you Will never hear again, unless you Join
( her III the better country, told you to never
[ mind, for You would feel better by-and-by, and
I by that dyngcouch where She looked 50 pale and
talked 50 slowly, catching her breath between
the words, and yOu felt an awful loneliness
/ coming over your soul; by all that, ! beg you
to come back and take the same religion. It
was good enough for her. 1t is good enough
/ for you. Nay, have a better plea than that.
[ ! plead by all tho wounds, and tears, and
/ blood, and grOans, and agonies, and death
throcs Of the Son Of God, who approaches you
this moment aWith torn brow, and laccra-
| ted hand, and whipped back, and saying:
( Come unto me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and ] viii give youarest."
Again, there is a field OF usefulness but little
touched occupied by those who astray in
{ their habits. All northern nations, like those
! Of North America, and England and Scotland,
| that is, in the colder climates, are devastated
! BY alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up
/ the warmth. In southern countries, like Ara
/ bia and SPAIN the blood is SO they are not
/ tempted to fiery liquids. The great Roman
armies never drank anything stronger than
water tinged with vinegar, but under our
northern climate the temptation to heating
stimGlants is most mighty, and millions sue
cnub. Whom a mans habits go wrong the
church drops him, the social circle drops him,
good influences drop him, We all drop him. OF
all the men who get Off track but few ever get
on again. Near my summer residence there
is 4 ife-sayng station on the beach.
There are all the ropes and
rockets, the boats the machinery for
fore last, ! saw there fifteen or twenty men
who were brcaltfastiHg, after having just es-
capped with their lives and nothing more.
Up and down our coasts are built these nse-
full structures, and the mariners know it, and
they feel that if they are driven into the
breakers, there will bc apt from shore to come
q rescue The churches Of God ought to be
so many life-saYing stations, not so much to
help those who are in smooth waters, but those
who have been shipWrccked. Come, let us
run ont the life-b0atsl And who viii man
them? We do not preach enough to such men
we have not enough faith in their release
Alas, if when they come to hear rs, we are Ia
boriously trying TO show the difference between
saplapsaranisinzan d supraapsarianism, while
they lave thousand Yipcrs Of rcmorse and
despair coiling around and biting their i'm
mortal spirits. The church is not chiefly for
go0dish sort OF men whose proCiyities are all
right, and who could get to heaven praying
and singing IN their own homes. 1t is on the
beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases
arc The cases that God likes to take hold of.
He can ssaye a big sinner jas well as small
sinner, and when . man calls earnestly to
God for help he viii 80 out to deliver such q
one. II il We're necessary God would come
down from the sky, followed by all the artil-
lery of heaven and a million angels with
drawn swords. Get one hundred such re-
-, a.,
u'tiie" MN IA IN ~ SU," elaioies' anu
rto5 ana ioa
n.y. n.y. " 10Y S|ti' l oiitr,Is
singing then. No cold conyentonalsms
then.
Furthermore, the destitute children of the
! street oder q iic!d OF work comparatively un-
occupied. The uHcaredior children are in the
majority m brooklyn and most OF our cities.
/ When they grow mp, If mrefOrmed, they will
/ outyote your children. and tbcv win oove1n
vour children. vLisI,yrino, xiii hatch ont
/ other whisky RINGS. and roc shops viii Kill
with their horrid stencil. nubiicsobrictv miles,
/ the church Of God rises nm with ol,tstretcbed
/ arms and eufolds thiS DIVING uonnlation i'm Ler
/ bosom Pubic schools cannot do IT, ART GAL
leries cannot do it. Blackwelps island cannot
/ do it. Aims houses cannot do n New, York
I tooubs and Raymond street iail cannot 10 n
/ Sine Sin@ cannot do H. Church Of Odd F.2i5c
nm fo voIIr mannifcrnt nlissioni Ynn can n
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